Sharp County record., 1887-11-24
Miscellaneous items.

Y it fel over.
Nj Miscellaneous items.
N, The next LEGISLATURE will elect United
IN States Senator in the place of Senator
ia Berry.
M Cotton men in Lawrence County seem
IN To think the crop will not be as short as
G was at first feared. The pretty weather
iy for picking has already probably made
Ia the number of bales about equal to the
Ia number at this date last year, ana greaO
Es deal Of cotton has remained in pens wall
Tia inx for the completion of new gins IN tneir
ia nAighborhood.
ni& Recently Governor Hughes wrote to 5.
N. Fl. Clark, first ice-president of the
M Missouri Pacific, in behalf Of the lumber
ra ;men along the line of the Iron Mountain
M road. stating that complaints were being
B,s made that they had not sufficient cars for
ss the TRANSPORTATION of lumber, impreSsing
mn the fact that our lumber interests are be-
nd coming Of great Importance, and urging
fhe company to furnish them necessary
os cars, etc. Mr.. Clark states in his reply
that short time ago an order was given
M for five hundred new box cars, but until
a he received Governor Hughes letter did
\, not know that their interests were suffer-
my ing.
F, Ellen Homes, colored, was tried in the
n, Circuit Court at Little Rock last week for
N, numbering her child by inhuman treat.
vs ment, and the jury returned verdict OF
,r murder in the second degree. Twenty
witnesses were examined, and the eyi.
~, dance deyeoped that it was one OF the
~ worst cases of moral and human deprayi-
-, Hy in the annals of crime. She adopted
H. 1.-THE little girl at the age Of two years, and
a. immediately began her inhuman treat
W. lment by beating, kicking and knocking
~. ~, down the child. Finally she tied the little
% q, lgirl's hands behind her back and put her
tJ out in the yard, and she ran about in this
II way until she became so famished that
a Jshe drank out of the soapsuds that had
Nv ~. been Standing in the wash-tub for days.
This treatment resulted in the child's
az death.
~ Texarkana is boasting of the fine con-
NV nv diflon in which her streets are kept.
wv Miss y. M. Bartlett, of this State, has
y been promoted from a 5000 to $L0)0
U.clerkship in the Office of the Commission.
W. In his office in Little Rock Hon. L. B
w Moore has on exhibition five specimens of
|. silk, in all stages, from the cocoon to the
Nv floss. The specimens are neatly put up in
bottles labeled: "Washington County
Y silk grown on Shannon apple trees"
0I Notwithstanding upward of four hum
Mdred residences were built in Texarkana
during the past ten months, and all oc
cupied, there exists as heavy demand for
cottages as at any time during the history
N~ of the place. In fact, almost all the up
@ ,per stories of brick business houses have
been taken for residences and lodging.
@ B. G. Shirley, charged with burning the
post -ofiice and contents at Wener, Poin-
nlSsett County, claims that the prosecution
a against him is malicious prejudice.
ia Patents have recently been granted to
o. "A. F.. Adams, Little Rock for q telephone
HA Acall, and s. B. Robertson, Bentonvlla, for
eHl device for keeping title abstracts.
o Four young boys from Little Rock, all
NJ under fifteen years of age, were allowed
% ITO SO hunting a few days ago, taking with
ID them shotgun. They had not been gone
Viong ere askif man went back to the city
carrying ono of them, Arnold Drummond
d aged eleven, in his arms. Both of the
rrboy's legs were shot badly in the calves !
81. and both bones were broken in each leg, /
vi rhe man also said that hand of one OF !
'ihe others, Charles Davidson, had been
it shot of, though nothing further could be /
learned of this, as the boy could not be /
found.
Hy w. J. Poteet, who was convicted of as |
FAULT with Intent to kill at the February /
Term Of the Yell County Circuit Court in !
$3.50 and sentenced to the penitentiary for /
ID pnree years, has been pardoned by Gov.
prnor Hughes. The petition for his mar.
Ion WAS signed by the man whom he shot.
a'py the jury that convicted him. bv the
prosecuting attorney who conducted his
~ fiai ana many of the best citizens of Yell
led County.
P me drummers' banquet at Little Rock
vas grand affair. There were $40 com.
~ III 1nercle' uavelers at the tables, repre- sent.
" ng buslness houses in twenty.nine
Oh jtates. ''"0
rrank Rander, colored convict, made
hs escape few days ago from the guards
snno working at the compress building
Little Rock 1t is believed that he had
y muggied away a suit of citizens clothes
~ nd his escape was thus made easier. He
scaped once before at Wards farm. in
70 conway County, and was not recantnred
.os TWO years. He is regarded a, tonph
1b haracter - '0usn
@ A building boom is on in Lonoke.
~ r. Artlcies OF association have bee re.
y eived at the Secretary of States Office of
~ ne Northwest Mining and Smelling Com.
% any OF Arkansas, to work and onerate
ne mines in Washington County known
the Morris and Smith mines.
"a information comes from Logan County
N .ne mysterious murder of an old man
xsy-eight years old, whose name was
oosrs ware. 1t seems that the old man
!" vea Alone in an isolated cabin about
=. aree m'les from Paris. He was discov.
" leo dead lying face downward on the
y y iN. oor; Ihe coroner's jury returned YER.
" ~ snat be came to his death bv noison
mmistered in some unknown manner.
a tour,footed goose is the latest curiosi.
,rF at Little ncl,. WV '''e'' 'u' i0Sl'